Dan Connolly

Everyone has unfounded fears. Heights. Spiders. The future. But for Dolphins fans it has been a “fear of finding guards” in recent years. There’s chapter and verse on why this is going back a decade when good money and good draft picks have had trouble yielding a regular guard, much less two.

And it appears they need two guards this off-season as they’ve moved Laremy Tunsil to his natural left-tacke position and seem intent on upgrading from Jermon Bushrod. So the fear factor is high among fans.

But let’s be real about this. Like many “curses” in sports – “Curse of the Bambino” the Red Sox had; “Curse of the Billy Goat,” the Cubs had – this supposed trouble in finding guards...

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